“啊？你怎么知道？”
“早就猜到了。你家里有童老师的照片，童老师手里有你做过笔记的小说，你一个外系的学生经常出现在童老师办公室……最关键的是啥你知道吗？”
“我们都姓‘童’？”
“你俩一样二。”
“……”
童哲一颗悬着的心落了下来。
“那为啥你这么沉得住气啊？你没觉得是我和她在合谋骗你参加比赛吗？”
“因为这不重要，我没觉得你在骗我。我更应该感谢你们，我相信你们是为我好。”
夏冉江长长呼出一口气，若有所思地看着童哲。
“老实说，这段时间我其实很痛苦，因为我一直在做着与天生的自己相违背的事情。我思考太慢，心里总是干着急。面对那么多人我会紧张得呼吸困难。那么长时间的车轮赛，我会头痛。哪怕失败一次，我也会难受很久。不过，也许这样才能成长吧！如果这是你愿意看到的，我也愿意去做。你对我的好，我都知道。相对这种痛苦，我心里更害怕辜负你。现在，我重新走出了新的自己。现在，我也有底气站在你旁边了。”
听着夏冉江的话，童哲抓住夏冉江的手，十指紧扣。
“听歌吗？”夏冉江拿起耳机，塞进童哲耳朵。
“为什么你总是听这首《The Sound of Silence》？”
“因为好听啊。”
夏冉江闭着眼，懒洋洋地靠着。
“可是为什么我这边只有配乐没有人声？”
“啊？哦，这首歌声道就是这样，一边是配乐一边是人声，刚好给你的是配乐……”
“你这是故意的吧。”
“你就当听轻音乐呗。”
“不行，我要完整的。”
“那我两个都给你。”
夏冉江正准备摘下耳机，被童哲一手按住。
“那可不行。”童哲挑了挑眉。“你得唱给我听，你就当K歌了。”
“不唱。”
“不唱？”
童哲一脸坏笑地凑过去，手却伸到夏冉江腰带下，先是试探性地挠了挠，又忽地抓住，夏冉江一个激灵差点从座位上跌下去。
“我唱，唱……”
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've e to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
No one dare
Disturb the sound of silence
“Fools” said I, “You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said “The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence”
夏冉江听着自己的声音，突然觉得这首从小听到大的歌似乎有种陌生感。一直以来沉浸其中的平静心绪恍然变成了一层五彩斑斓的油墨，被这如一塘绿水的旋律排斥于上，再也无法交融其间。
“我介绍几首歌给你。”
童哲拿起夏冉江手机，找到Sam Tsui的专辑。
“之前听到这个专辑，一个华人唱的，翻唱都很经典。听听看。”
“《Hold It Against Me》？”
“闭眼听就是了。”
“If I said my heart was beating loud, if we could escape the crowd somehow, if I said I want your body now, would you hold it against me……”
童哲小声哼着，边哼边靠近夏冉江。
“这歌这么不正经……”
夏冉江微微睁眼，正撞上童哲的直视，赶紧又闭上眼睛。嘴角却淡淡地凹陷上扬，头慢慢偏到窗外，不禁露出笑意。